HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source — HP to enable creativity of the community to accelerate the next-generation web-centric platform — HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community. — HP plans to continue to be active in the development and support of webOS.

HP open sources WebOS: The fallout — Summary: WebOS' ultimate open source fate remains to be seen, but rest assured there could be some disruption ahead for the smartphone industry. — Hewlett-Packard has decided to open source its WebOS in a bet that the mobile operating system …

A Clarification With Respect to Yahoo — Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might become an operating executive of Yahoo in some capacity. — To be crystal clear, neither Jeff, nor I, nor any of our partners …

Justice Department Seeks to Delay AT&T Trial — In a setback for AT&T Inc., a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Friday the agency wants to postpone its antitrust case seeking to block the acquisition of T-Mobile USA. — The request, if approved by the judge …

How AT&T fumbled its $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile — The phone call hit like a one-two punch. — Days before Thanksgiving, AT&T's heavyweight lobbying team was busy setting up meetings with antitrust authorities scrutinizing the company's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.

Video: Thousands queue up for Apple's Grand Central store — And hundreds more crowd the terminal's main lobby to see what the fuss is about — Line-goers (middle left) pushing through the onlookers. Photo: PED — What if Apple (AAPL) opened a new store and nobody came? We may never know.

Sarah Lacy And Mike Arrington Are Starting TechCrunch 2.0 — Former managing editor of TechCrunch Sarah Lacy is doing what many people expected her to do after she left TechCrunch last month — building a brand new version of it. — Lacy is working on starting a new tech news site, according to multiple sources.

The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie) — Twitter today unveiled a new UI, debuting first in updated versions of its official iPhone, Android, and web clients. Coming soon: an updated version of their iPad app. (No mention of the Mac app — a sign of the times.) — This is more than an update.

We're Baaaacck! — “In aviation, a chain of events, often called the error chain, is a term referring to the concept that many contributing factors typically lead to an accident, rather than one single event” (from Wikipedia) Good news. YouMail is back in the Android Market, or will be shortly.

Apple using patents to undermine open standards again — A couple of years ago, I reported on how Apple was using patents to block a W3C specification. — The end-result was that the patent didn't seem to be relevant to the specification at all, and one or both of them were even rejected by the patent office.

AT&T's 4G LTE network is live in San Francisco — New York City by the end of 2011? How's about San Francisco by the end of December 8th? We can't say for certain that it's lit up for good ("testing," you know), but at least for now it's absolutely screaming on our LTE-equipped AT&T handsets in downtown SF.

Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it — You have probably heard about the continual struggle between Apple and Samsung over similarities in their designs. Apple is suing Samsung and asking the courts to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab in many countries (and succeeding).

YouTube Buys Company That Processes Music Royalties — In an effort to streamline its often complex relations with music publishers, YouTube has acquired RightsFlow, an upstart company in New York that processes royalties for the music industry. — YouTube, which is owned by Google …

AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local — Consolidates Sites in New Jersey, California — At one time, AOL had hoped to reach 1,000 Patch sites by the end of 2011. But now comes word that Patch is slightly scaling back its efforts in some markets, fueling speculation inside …

Spotify Radio gets a big makeover, goes truly unlimited — Spotify has already had a busy year, what with international roll-outs, its Facebook tie-up and its recent ‘Spotify as a platform for apps’ announcement. — Now, Spotify has given one of its earliest features a complete makeover.